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VOL. 54, No. 86
Ag Council Seeks
Journ Curriculum
The Agriculture Student Council voted unanimously last night
to send a letter to Lyman E. Jackson, dean of the College of Agri T
culture, urging the establishment of an agricultural journalism
curriculum.
The creation•of :the journalism curriculum would help alleviate
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J. T. White
?few Football Aide
White Joins
University Grid
Coaching Staff
J. T. White, a member of the
University of Michigan football
coaching staff since 1948, was
named yesterday to the Univer
sity's staff to replace Albert Mi
chaels, backfield coach who re
signed Feb. 15.
Michaels left after 19 years to
accept a backfield coaching posi
tion at North Carolina State Col
lege.
White will report to the Uni
versity for spring drills. In addi
tion to his coaching duties he will
serve on the faculty of the• Col
lege of Physical Education and
Athletics as an assistant professor.
White played football at Ohio
State as a freshman and sopho
more and, after three years in the
U.S. Army, resumed his educa
tion at the University of Michi
gan, from which he received his
M.E. degree.
White played on the 1946 Mich
igan team which lost only to Illi
nois and on the unbeaten, untied
1947 team which won the national
championship and defeated South
ern California in the Rose Bowl.
As a member of the •Michigan
coaching staff, he worked with
the middle linemen and the line
backers. He has also done exten
sive scouting.
White was born in Georgia and
spent his boyhood in River Rouge,
Mich., where he played football,
basketball, and baseball.
Lutfer Named
To Party Post
,Rudolph Lutter, fourth semes
ter arts and . letters major, has
been appointed head coordinator
of State Party working commit
tees, John, Fink, clique chairman,
has announced.
W or kin g committees include
publicity, platform, camp a i gn,
ward, financial, public relations,
distribution,- and membership.
Lutter was appointed Sunday at
an executive meeting of the party.
. Fink also announced the ap
pointments of four members to
the party's advisory board. They
are Walt Back, senior class vice
president, John Carey, sixth se,
mester business administration
major, Barbara Stock, sophomore
class secretary-treasurer, and
Joan Shierson, sixth semester arts
and letters major.
Former clique chairman Ken
neth White is-- chairman of the
board.
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problems concerning agricultural
publications. It also could help
in the writing of publicity for
agricultural groups.
To Continue Farmer
The council also approved the
move to let the Penn State Farmer
continue publication. The Farmer,
Which is supported by students'
fees, has been handicapped finan
cially because of the number of
students who didn't pay the fee
during registration.
Edgar Fehnel, former editor of
the Farmer, presented a plan to
help the magazine in its finances.
Under this plan, vocational teach
ers who have been receiving the
Farmer, would be billed for the
copies they have received over
the last two years. The collection
of these bills would raise Farmer
assets to $6OO, Fehnel said.
Appeal Through Breeze
Other points under the plan in
clude a drive to sell the Farmer
to the faculty, an appeal to the
students through the Breeze, Ag
Hill newsletter, to pay fees which
were not paid at registration,
and attaching a questionnaire to
the Breeze asking the students
what they would like to see in
the Farmer.
The question of standardizing
the dates for agricultural group
meetings was rejected.
AIM to Hear
Conduct Case
The Association of Independent
Men's Judicial Board of Review
will hear a case involving a first
semester agriculture education
major who was arrested Feb. 14
in the borough, Harold W. Per
kins, assistant dean of men, an
nounced. yesterday.
The student pleaded guilty to
charges of disorderly conduct be
fore Burgesq David R. Mackey
Feb. 15. He was accused of steal-1
ing salt and pepper shakers from
a diner and creating a disturb-1
ance.
Reports of the cases heard by
the AIM board last Thursday have
not been received in the Dean of
Men's office, Perkins said. Recom
mendations of the board cannot
be acted on until the reports are
received, he said.
Redecoration Begun
At Nittany Lion Inn
A number of rooms in the Nit
tany Lion Inn are being redecor
ated and the main lobby is being
repapered as part of the Univer
sity's annual maintenance pro
gram,
Vietminh Withdraws ir. ln oc mina
SAIGON, Indochina; Feb. 23 (IP)
—The French announced tonight
the Vietminh had pulled back
their forces from the vicinity of
three threatened key points in
northern Indochina, including a
beleagured fortress protecting the
Laotian royal city of Luang Pra
bang.
But there was no indication
whether the Communist-led rebels
would renew the assaults or open
up on other sectors.
The French National Assembly
in Paris voted Tuesday to open
debate- on March 5 on Indian
Prime Minister Nehru's suggestion
that both sides agree to a cease
fire in Indochina pending discus
sion of an Indochinese settlement
at the Geneva conference opening
April 26.
Mayer Asks for Discussion
Socialist Daniel Mayer, presi
dent of the assembly's foreign af
fairs committee, asked for im
mediate discussion but a repre
, tattoo of Premier Joseph .I.ta-
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1954
All-College Head
To Be Inds •en • ent
Eye for Beauty
SIX JUDGES for the local Pittsburgh Press campus queen contest
select six 'queens" out of 99 pictures submitted by campus organ
izations. Finalists were chosen last night. Judges are, left to right,
William Coleman, Edward Leos, Robert Beese, Robert Breon,
David Jones, and Louis . H. Bell.
6 Finalists
For Queen
Two freshman, 3 sophomores, and 1 junior will compete for
Penn State's entry in the Pittsburgh Press campus queen contest
April 11. The six finalists, chosen last night by a board of six judges,
are Louise Justin, Maureen Flannery, Mary Pera, Alyce Cheney,
Carlene Samuels, and Marjorie Schenck.
Pictures of the six finalists will
appear in tomorrow's Collegian.
Finalists were chosen from 99
candidates on the basis of their
photogenic ability. No personal in
terviews were made of individual
candidates. Contestants in the
Press intercollegiate contest will'
be judged on the same basis.
Students will vote for one of
the six finalists to represent Penn
State in the Press contest. Ballot
ing will be held from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. tomorrow through Monday
at the Student Union desk in Old
Main.
Miss Justin, sixth semester pre
medical major from Mt. Carmel,
was sponsored by Tau Kappa Ep
silon. Miss Flannery, fourth se
mester home economics major
from Shenandoah, was sponsored
by Alpha Gamma Delta. Mary
Pera, fourth semester education
major from Pittsburgh, and Alyce
Cheney, second semester educa
tion major from Philadelphia,
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niel asked for delay, saying the
government had no official know
ledge of the cease-fire suggestion.
Nehru made clear India would
take no responsibility for bringing
about a cease-fire. Mayer said
purpose of the debate would be to
give the government a chance to
make a statement on Indochina
policy in advance of the Geneva
meeting. The Big Four
in
Ministers' Conference in Berlin
agreed on an Asian meeting in
Geneva with Red China present
to take up the deadlocked Ko
rean peace talks and a possible
Indonesian settlement.
Siege Lifted With U.S. Aid
The French command said .the
18-day siege of Muong Sai, em
battled post 54 miles north of the
royal Laotian capital of Luang
Prabang, had been lifted with the
aid of American-d on at e d 826
bombers.
The high command also said
'that elements of Vietminh's crack
Ilhasion 308, which launched an
rgiatt
Chosen
Contest
Course - Drop
Deadline Set
Students may continue to drop
courses with the permission of
the dean of their college until
March 6, according to Harry A.
Sperber, assistant scheduling offi
cer.
Citing the regulations for un
dergraduate s t u dent s, Sperber
said such authorization by the
dean, shall be given only under
special circumstances. Unsatisfac
tory scholarship is not
.included
in this category, he said.
Students may drop courses in
the Scheduling office in the base
ment of Willard. Time tables for
the summer sessions are now
available in the Scheduling office
and in 102 Burrowes. University
catalogs are also available in the
basement of Willard.
offensive toward Luang Prabang
Jan. 30, has pulled back its forces
from the vicinity of the royal
city. The,' division was reported
regrouping in the Bac River val
ley, about 50 miles northwest of
Luang Prabang.
French Forces Unopposed
More than 100 miles to- the
northeast, French Union forces
encountered no opposition in con
tinuing their probing sorties from
the beleaguered American-equip
ped dustbowl fortress of Dien Bien
Phu in northwestern Viet Nan'.
The Union's "strong reconnais
sance" force trying to draw rebels
encricling this last French-held
post in. the Thai tribal country
into decisive battles was unsuc
cessful. The force reported killing
one Vietminh and capturing an
other.
The French were jubilant over
the withdrawals but they cau
tiously said it did not necessarily
mean the Laos carnpaigo. had
ended.
Panhel
System
See Page 4
The next All-College presi
dent will be an independent
man, according to a fraternity
independent rotation ament
ment to the spring elections
code unanimously adopted by
the elections committee last
night.
The spring elections code must
be approved by All-College Cab
inet before the changes will go
into effect. The amended code
will be presented to cabinet March
4.
The offices of All-College vice
president and secretary-treasurer
will be filled by a fraternity man
and an independent man, respec
tively, according to the amend
ment.
The rotation system does not
apply to the senior and junior
class elections under the amend
ment.
The committee also decided that
a fraternity man could not oppose
an independent man in any elec
tions this spring.
Elections April 7, 8
Spring elections will be held
April 7 and 8. The election:- will
be for All-College, senior class,
junior class, and Athletic Asso
ciation officers.
The committee named two poll
ing places for decentralized vot
ing and took under consideration
five other possible locations. The
second floor lounge of Old Main
and West Dorm lounge were ap
proved as polling places. The other
locations under consideration at
Nittany Dorm 20, Temporary Un
ion Building, Agriculture Build
ing, McElwain Hall, and Simmons
Hall.
Polling Places Restricted
The committee will decide on
two more locations at next week's
meeting, Edwin Kohn, committee
chairman, said. The number of
p olling locations must be re
stricted to four, at least for the
spring elections, Kohn said, be
cause of the personnel problem.
Complete reports on the five re
maining locations will be present
ed at the next committee meeting.
Of the original eight possible lo
cations that were mentioned at
the committee meeting Feb. 16,
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Frosh Lose
Car Privileges
For Violations
Cars of two first semester stu
dents have been sent home be
cause of repeated campus parking
violations, Dean of Men Frank J.
Simes announced yesterday,.
Having the car sent home,
Simes said, means the privilege
of operating or parking a motor
vehicle on the campus is forbid
den. A copy of the letter Simes
has sent each of the students noti
fying them of the decision will be
sent to the Campus Patrol office.
If 'either of the cars are seen on
campus again the students will
be sent to the Senate committee
on student affairs' subcommittee
on discipline, Simes said.
Simes said yesterday he be
lieved the new parking system
is now "having its effects" on vi
olations. He predicted that in fu
ture weeks a downswing in viola
tions will occur.
The students involved in the
cases yesterday had four and five
violations respectively. Simes
re
ported violation lists from the
Campus Patrol office had listed
students who had committed their
eighth and ninth offenses.
Any student who has commit
ted more than three violations
automatically goes to Traffic
Court, and an automatic recom
mendation that the offender's car
be sent home is sent to the Dean
• Men's office.
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